Legs · Bodyweight
Cluster
How to do the cluster, the muscles it works, and the mistakes to avoid. Pulled straight from the Kovo app's exercise library.
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Logged as
- Weighted reps
- Movement
- VerticalPush
- Mechanic
- Compound
How to do it
A cluster pairs a clean with a front squat thruster. Clean the load to your shoulders, drop into a front squat, then drive up and press overhead. Lower fully between reps and reset each time to repeat the full sequence.
- 1Full-body power linking the clean, squat, and overhead press
- 2Strong leg drive carrying through into the overhead lockout
- 3A braced core stabilizing the front rack and the overhead position
Common mistakes
- Pressing before your hips finish extending out of the squat
- Rounding your back as you clean the load from the floor
- Letting your knees cave inward under the squat
Muscles worked
The cluster mainly works the quads, glutes, and front delts, with the triceps, upper traps, hamstrings, side delts, forearms, lower back, upper abs, lower abs, and calves assisting.
- QuadsPrimary
- GlutesPrimary
- Front DeltsPrimary
- TricepsSupport
- Upper TrapsSupport
- HamstringsSupport
- Side DeltsSupport
- ForearmsSupport
- Lower BackSupport
- Upper AbsSupport
- Lower AbsSupport
- CalvesSupport
- Upper ChestMinor
- LatsMinor
- Mid TrapsMinor
- Lower TrapsMinor
- ObliquesMinor
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More quads exercises
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- How to do the resistance band squat to press
- How to do the resistance band thruster
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- How to do the barbell bulgarian split squat
Last reviewed June 2026.